predator control

Sixty-six dead wolves
and eighty thousand
dollars later.

Fish and wildlife
protection-
the merits
of culling
the feral litter.

Which cost more,
fifty calliber bullets
or aviation gasoline?
Twelve-hundred-and-twelve
dollars-per-dead wolf
later.

Let us draft
an impact analysis;
rhettorically speaking
the wild wolf
is more than equal
to domesticated man.

And like the wolf
we sometimes kill
senselessly-
because it's in our nature.

Sixty-six dead wolves
and eighty thousand
dollars later.